DIT wins prestigious All-Ireland MBA Award
DIT MBA team wins National Case Competition
21 June, 2014: A team of four students on the MBA programme at DIT has won the prestigious national MBA case study competition. This annual competition, hosted by the MBA Association of Ireland (MBAAI), attracts entrants from all the universities and institutes of technology on the island of Ireland that run MBA programmes. This year's competition, held at UCD's Michael Smurfit Business School, involved a case study that explored future possibilities for four companies in the digital arena, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Participating teams took four hours to study the case and then made a 20 minute presentation before a distinguished panel of judges.
The DIT MBA team were, in the end, declared overall champions. The winning DIT team was praised for the rigour and novelty of its analysis of the case, and the depth and clarity of its strategic recommendations. The DIT team members included Darragh McGonigle, Senior Bid Manager at Aramark Ireland, Michelle Bennett Head of Investor Relations and Treasury at Eircom, Daragh Little, Director at Alan Tierney & Partners and Diarmuid O'Riordan, Officer Commanding - Air Traffic Control (ATC) Unit at Irish Defence Forces. The teams mentors were Professor Aidan O'Driscoll, Eoghan O'Grady and Serge Basini.
Commenting on the win, Eoghan O'Sullivan, MBA Development Manager, DIT said: " Congratulations to the DIT MBA students and staff on their achievement. Winning the MBA Association of Ireland's MBA Case Study Challenge is testament to the excellent teaching and learning standards available to DIT MBA students. The DIT MBA curriculum offers a comprehensive grounding in core functional areas and is designed, in particular, to encourage students to respond to the new economic realities and opportunities.
